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Genus: Thyene Simon, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Thyene scalarinota Strand, 1907

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036614

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum Lübeck, Germany; type material destroyed 1942 f - (Nentwig et al., 2020)

Taxonomic References

Thyene scalarinotum Strand, 1907a: 547 (Df) Original description

Thyene scalarinotum Strand, 1907n: 723 (f)

Thyene scalarinota Nentwig et al., 2020: 26 (nomen dubium)

References

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2020). How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 22-29. doi: 10.30963/aramit5904 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-03-10	Taxon is nomen dubium	Nentwig et al., 2020		Thyene scalarinota Strand, 1907 declared a nomen dubium
2020-03-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Nentwig et al., 2020